Beautiful Atton Rand Fanart. 

Fascinating insights about Floralia and Flora’s cult. 

The Floralia is a Roman festival honoring Flora, the goddess of spring, flower gardens, and crops. It was held each year from April 27th or 28th to May 3rd. She is married to Favonius, the God of the West Wind. Flora was one of the most important goddesses in the Roman pantheon, one of only 15 deities to have a cult administered by a state priesthood consisting of a married couple, who were appointed for life.

The celebration of the Floralia included theatrical performances, competitive games, and a sacrifice to Flora, presumably at her temple on the lower slope of the Aventine Hill near the Circus Maximus.

About the base image:

Flora, or the Primavera of Stabaie; 1st century CE fresco from Stabaie, Italy. Collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli via Wikimedia Commons (X). Image license: Public Domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer and in the United States - published anywhere (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before 1926.

Manipulation: I 'healed' some of the fresco's more obvious flaws and added the floral border.

LOL=Leaping off lanista

Is Your Child Texting About Ancient Rome?

OMFG= oh, my fire's gone! (thanks Crassus)

WTF=where's the flammeum? (seriously, I'm about to get married here)

SMH= Someone marry her (off)

IDC= I'm dating Cleopatra

IDK=I'm dating Kleopatra (but spelled in the original Greek way)

BTW= Bring the wine (they're probably texting a slave)

LMAO= let's murder an official

GTG= get the garum

IKR- I killed the republic

Apart from Cleopatra, who would probably be double majoring in linguistics and history, these are largely accurate. 

The Romans and Friends as College Majors

Caesar: Political Science

Cleopatra: Medicine

Brutus: English

Cassius: Philosophy

Antony: Kinesiology (he's a student athlete and got paid to be there)

Cicero: Law

Octavian: Psychology

Crassus: Business

Pompey: General Studies

Atton Rand does have a knack for getting into trouble. 

Panera Bread fired a Pagan employee because of their religion, and now they think they're being funny with this shit.

https://religionnews.com/2021/03/27/pagan-sues-panera-bread-company-alleging-religious-discrimination/

So yeah, boycotting them for the foreseeable future.

Black History Month Book Recommendations

By Black authors:

-The Hemmings of Monticello

-Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster

-The Warmth of Other Suns

By Non Black Authors: 

-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

-All Night Party: The Bohemian Women of Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930 (has sections on A’Lelia Walker, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters)

The beginning of a memorable speech.. 

“i could fix him” “i could make him worse” well i come to bury caesar not to praise him. the evil that men do lives after them,

Can I Copy Your Homework? Mass Effect Edition

I’ll Help You With It: Liara T’Soni, Kaidan Alenko, Dr. Chakwas

Yeah, Sure: Tali’Zorah, David Anderson, Urdnot Wrex (but you have to pay him)

Bold of You to Assume I Did the Homework: Garrus Vakarian, Joker Moreau 

LOL Nope: Ashley Williams, Greg Adams

Wait We Had Homework: Charles Pressley, Jenkins

Read at 5:55 P.M.: Udina, Citadel Council

And Nonbinary people, genderqueer people and genderfluid people can also be bisexual.

you know bi girls aren’t diet wlw right? being attracted to men doesn’t decrease their attraction to women and they can love women just as strongly and the same goes for bi men not being mlm lite

Pro-Lifer’s Ableism

So called pro lifers claim to care so much about disabled people just, because they screech about people who get abortions because the fetus has Down syndrome, but don’t say a word when caregivers murder disabled people. They also want to cut benefits for disabled people (which are difficult enough to qualify for and are extremely punitive) and stand by while disabled people lose custody of their children, because of their disabilities. 

Plus, their creepy fetus worshipping stance means they’d let me die if a wanted pregnancy goes very wrong (e.g. ectopic pregnancy, sepsis, preeclampsia). And they don’t acknowledge the hundreds of disabled people (especially disabled POC) who were sterilized against their will. 

In short, they are hypocritical jerks who honestly don’t give a shit about disabled people.